606 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. 



Mr. Newsom: Gluten meal will be as cheap as the gluten feed. 



President: You have about 28 to 40 per cent, portein in gluten meal 

 and 16 to 20 per cent, in gluten feed. 



Mr. Burnside: What is that worth? 



President: About ?26 a ton. 



Mr. Burnside: I can buy cottonseed meal for $2.5. 



President: I think in the selection of this feeding stuff one should 

 have regard for the purposes he wants to feed his cows for. I think 

 cottonseed meal, as a butter producer, does not make first-class butter. 

 It may produce a slightly objectionable condition of the fat. It is a harder 

 fat. Butter that is made in the south will ship better when made from 

 cottonseed meal, but it has been shown by careful experiments that as 

 far as the flavor of the butter is concerned, it is one of the poorer mate- 

 rials used for feeds. 



Mr. Burnside: Did you ever have any kick in that respect in con- 

 nection with silage? 



President: I can not give any instance. I know that matter has been 

 discussed a gi-eat deal among scientific men. 



Mr. Burnside: What I am concerned in is to get rid of clover hay. I 

 want to feed silage, shredded fodder, and am buying my concentrated 

 feed. I want to have bran, gluten feed or cottonseed meal. 



Secretary: Why do you want to get rid of clover hay? 



Mr. Burnside: Simply because it is not handy. You have to have a 

 double force of men all the time to harvest it. Clover hay is a hard thing 

 to cure first-class. Clover makes a great feed for the cow, but it is hard 

 to get and hard to cure and get it in in the right kind of shape, and we 

 feel that the corn field is the place to get our feed. 



President: If you can buy cottonseed meal at $25 a ton, I am perfectly 

 satisfied it is the cheapest thing I have heard of so far. 



Mr. Burnside: I would like to have this ration criticised. I feed my 

 cows about forty pounds of corn silage; I feed them four pounds of bran, 

 two pounds of cottonseed meal, and I give them all the shredded fodder 

 they will eat— all they will take up and not waste. 



Mr. Johnson: Is this cottonseed meal guaranteed by the manufacturer 

 to contain so much of these ingredients that you get for $25 a ton? 



Mr. Burnside: I don't consider a guarantee of that kind worth that 

 (snap of finger). They don't amount to anything. I bought cottonseed 



